artTalk: 2 Minutes with Posterboy – New York Subway Artist

I’mÂ glad I ran into this post on Fader today. NYC artist, Posterboy is a manipulator of sorts. He basically takes popular ads that the everyday New Yorker sees everyday within the subway system and turns into works of art by mix and matching different parts of different posters amoung one another.Â Controversy has sparked up as of recent (google: “posterboy moma” and you’ll see the articles), but it doesn’t change the fact that this kind of art-tactic is original and a bit exciting.Â Â Video of him in action after the jump…